ELECTIONS: 1971

We welcome to our Hall Alec Connell and Red Storey. Although it had no influence in our voting, one of our committee members interviewed Storey during our exercise.

Reported Mike Wyman, "Spent a wonderful afternoon with Mr. Storey ("The name's Red, son.")last spring. He had a lot to say about Clarence Campbell, none of it good. My favorite quote was that he was "arrogant, alcoholic, incompetent and a complete asshole".

"When I mentioned that I had worked at the Duty Free shop at the
Montreal Airport that resulted in his Campbell's criminal conviction,
he went into a tale about how Campbell and his cronies had stolen the
company from a fellow by the name of Andy Anton, at one time a semi-
pro hockey player.

"He wasn't too keen on the way Campbell treated Maurice Richard and
mentioned that after '55 he would surreptitiously take Richard's
stick from him any time that the Rocket got into a fight, 'just in
case.'

Said that Campbell tried to get him canned from his local radio show
as well as banned from Hockey Night in Canada and keep him out of the
HHoF. Seems that Campbell said something to the effect that Storey
would be back the next season, hat in hand, asking for his $11,000 a
year reffing job back because, 'Red's too dumb to be able to feed his
family.'"

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